Publications


Neumann, F., Negrete-Aranda, R., Harris, R. N., Contreras, J., Sciater, J. G., & Gonzalez-Fernandez, A. (2017). Systematic heat flow measurements across the Wagner Basin, northern Gulf of California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479, 340–353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.037
Takeuchi, C. S., Sclater, J. G., Grindlay, N. R., Madsen, J. A., & Rommevaux-Jestin, C. (2010). Segment-scale and intrasegment lithospheric thickness and melt variations near the Andrew Bain megatransform fault and Marion hot spot: Southwest Indian Ridge, 25.5 degrees E-35 degrees E. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 11. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010gc003054
Geli, L., & Sclater, J. (2008). On the depth of oceanic earthquakes: Brief comments on “The thermal structure of oceanic and continental lithosphere”, by McKenzie, D., Jackson, J. and Priestley, K., Earth Plan. Sci. Let., 233, 2005 , 337-349. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 265(3–4), 769–775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.029
Peyve, A. A., Skolotnev, S. G., Ligi, M., Turko, N. N., Bonatti, E., Kolodyazhnyi, S. Y., Chamov, N. P., Tsukanov, N. V., Baramykov, Y. E., Eskin, A. E., Grindlay, N., Sclater, J. G., Brunelly, D., Pertsev, A. N., Cipriani, A., Bortoluzzi, G., Mercuri, R., Paganelli, E., Muccini, F., … Dobrolyubova, K. O. (2007). Investigation of the Andrew Bain transform fault zone (African-Antarctic region). Doklady Earth Sciences, 416(7), 991–994. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X07070021
Crosby, A. G., McKenzie, D., & Sclater, J. G. (2006). The relationship between depth, age and gravity in the oceans. Geophysical Journal International, 166(2), 553–573. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03015.x
Sclater, J. G., Grindlay, N. R., Madsen, J. A., & Rommevaux-Jestin, C. (2005). Tectonic interpretation of the Andrew Bain transform fault: Southwest Indian Ocean. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005gc000951
Sclater, J. G. (2004). Variability of heat flux through the seafloor: discovery of hydrothermal circulation in the oceanic crust. In E. E. Davis (Ed.), Hydrogeology of the oceanic lithosphere (pp. 3–27). Cambridge University Press.
Sclater, J. G. (2003). Earth science - Ins and outs on the ocean floor. Nature, 421(6923), 590–591. https://doi.org/10.1038/421590a
Fisher, A. T., Giambalvo, E., Sclater, J., Kastner, M., Ransom, B., Weinstein, Y., & Lonsdale, P. (2001). Heat flow, sediment and pore fluid chemistry, and hydrothermal circulation on the east flank of Alarcon Ridge, Gulf of California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 188(3–4), 521–534. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(01)00310-7
Sclater, J. G. (2001). Heat flow under the oceans. In N. Oreskes & H. E. LeGrand (Eds.), Plate tectonics: an insider’s history of the modern theory of the Earth (pp. 128–147). Westview Press.
Grindlay, N. R., Madsen, J. A., Rommevaux-Jestin, C., & Sclater, J. (1998). A different pattern of ridge segmentation and mantle Bouguer gravity anomalies along the ultra-slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (15 degrees 30 ’ E to 25 degrees E). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 161(1–4), 243–253. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x(98)00154-x
Muller, R. D., Roest, W. R., Royer, J. Y., Gahagan, L. M., & Sclater, J. G. (1997). Digital isochrons of the world’s ocean floor. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 102(B2), 3211–3214. https://doi.org/10.1029/96jb01781
Nagihara, S., Lister, C. R. B., & Sclater, J. G. (1996). Reheating of old oceanic lithosphere: Deductions from observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 139(1–2), 91–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x(96)00010-6
Nagihara, S., Sclater, J. G., Phillips, J. D., Behrens, E. W., Lewis, T., Lawver, L. A., Nakamura, Y., GarciaAbdeslem, J., & Maxwell, A. E. (1996). Heat flow in the western abyssal plain of the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for thermal evolution of the old oceanic lithosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 101(B2), 2895–2913. https://doi.org/10.1029/95jb03450
Grindlay, N. R., Madsen, J. A., Rommevaux, C., Sclater, J. G., & Murphy, S. (1996). Southwest Indean Ridge 15°E-35°E: a geophysical investigation of an ultra-slow spreading mid-ocean ridge system. InterRidges News, 5(2), 7–12.
Atwater, T., Sclater, J., Sandwell, D., Severinghaus, J., & Marlow, M. (1993). Fracture zone traces across the North Pacific Cretaceous Quiet Zone and their tectonic implications. In M. S. Pringle, W. W. Sager, W. V. Sliter, & S. Stein (Eds.), The Mesozoic Pacific : geology, tectonics, and volcanism : a volume in memory of Sy Schlanger (pp. 137–154). American Geophysical Union.
Sclater, J. G., & Francheteau, J. (1992). Terrestrial Heat-Flow and Plate-Tectonics - a Citation-Classic Commentary on Implications of Terrestrial Heat-Flow Observations on Current Tectonic and Geochemical Models of the Crust and Upper Mantle of the Earth by Sclater,J.G., Francheteau,J. Current Contents/Physical Chemical & Earth Sciences, 46, 10–10.
Nagihara, S., Sclater, J. G., Beckley, L. M., Behrens, E. W., & Lawver, L. A. (1992). High Heat-Flow Anomalies over Salt Structures on the Texas Continental-Slope, Gulf-of-Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 19(16), 1687–1690. https://doi.org/10.1029/92gl00976
Boerner, S. T., & Sclater, J. G. (1992). Deformation under Extension of Assemblies of Steel Balls in Contact - Application to Sandbox Models. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 97(B4), 4969–4990. https://doi.org/10.1029/91jb02274
Sclater, J. G., & et al. (1992). The Alliance Exotique, Indidan Ocean plate reconstructions since the late Jurassic. In R. A. Duncan (Ed.), The Indian Ocean : a synthesis of results from the Ocean Drilling Program (pp. 471–475). American Geophysical Union.
Sclater, J. G., & Nagihara, S. (1991). Heat-Flow in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico - Comment. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 96(B13), 21807–21810. https://doi.org/10.1029/91jb00593
Mueller, D., Sandwell, D. T., Tucholke, B. E., Sclater, J. G., & Shaw, P. R. (1991). Depth to basement and geoid expression of the Kane Fracture Zone: A comparison. Marine Geophysical Researches, 13(2), 105–129.
Lister, C. R. B., Sclater, J. G., Davis, E. E., Villinger, H., & Nagihara, S. (1990). Heat-Flow Maintained in Ocean Basins of Great Age - Investigations in the North-Equatorial West Pacific. Geophysical Journal International, 102(3), 603–630. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb04586.x
Royer, J. Y., Sclater, J. G., & Sandwell, D. T. (1989). A Preliminary Tectonic Fabric Chart of the Indian-Ocean. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences-Earth and Planetary Sciences, 98(1), 7–24.
Rosencrantz, E., Sclater, J. G., & Boerner, S. T. (1989). Basement depths and heat flow in the Yucatan Basin and Cayman Trough, northwestern Caribbean: implications for basin ages. In J. A. Wright & K. E. Louden (Eds.), CRC handbook of seafloor heat flow (pp. 257–276). CRC Press.
Boerner, S. T., & Sclater, J. G. (1989). Approximate solutions for the heat loss in small marginal basins. In J. A. Wright & K. E. Louden (Eds.), CRC handbook of seafloor heat flow (pp. 231–255). CRC Press.
Kautz, S. A., & Sclater, J. G. (1988). Internal Deformation in Clay Models of Extension by Block Faulting. Tectonics, 7(4), 823–832. https://doi.org/10.1029/TC007i004p00823
Renkin, M. L., & Sclater, J. G. (1988). Depth and Age in the North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 93(B4), 2919–2935. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB093iB04p02919
Rosencrantz, E., Ross, M. I., & Sclater, J. G. (1988). Age and Spreading History of the Cayman Trough as Determined from Depth, Heat-Flow, and Magnetic-Anomalies. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 93(B3), 2141–2157. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB093iB03p02141
Sclater, J. G., & Shorey, M. D. (1988). Mid-Jurassic through Mid-Cretaceous extension in the central graben of the North Sea; Part 2, Estimates from faulting observed on a seismic reflection line. Basin Research, 1(4), 201–215. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.1988.tb00016.x
Sclater, J. G., & Celerier, B. (1988). Errors in extension measurements from planar faults observed on seismic reflection lines. Basin Research, 1(4), 217–221. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.1988.tb00017.x
Hellinger, S. J., Sclater, J. G., & Giltner, J. (1988). Mid-Jurassic through Mid-Cretaceous extension in the central graben of the North Sea; Part 1, Estimates from subsidence. Basin Research, 1(4), 191–200. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.1988.tb00015.x
Sclater, J. G., & Celerier, B. (1987). Extensional Models for the Formation of Sedimentary Basins and Continental Margins. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 67(4), 253–267.
Rosencrantz, E., & Sclater, J. G. (1986). Depth and Age in the Cayman Trough. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 79(1–2), 133–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x(86)90046-4
Sclater, J. G., & Wixon, L. (1986). The relationship between depth, heat flow and age in the Western North Atlantic. In P. R. Vogt & B. E. Tucholke (Eds.), The Western North Atlantic region (pp. 257–270). Geological Society of America.
Ye, H., Shedlock, K. M., Hellinger, S. J., & Sclater, J. G. (1985). The North China Basin - an Example of a Cenozoic Rifted Intraplate Basin. Tectonics, 4(2), 153–169. https://doi.org/10.1029/TC004i002p00153
Sclater, J. G., Meinke, L., Bennett, A., & Murphy, C. (1985). The Depth of the Ocean through the Neogene. Geological Society of America Memoirs, 163, 1–19.
Lawver, L. A., Sclater, J. G., & Meinke, L. (1985). Mesozoic and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the South-Atlantic. Tectonophysics, 114(1–4), 233–254. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(85)90015-0
Jemsek, J., Vonherzen, R., Rehault, J. P., Williams, D. L., & Sclater, J. (1985). Heat-Flow and Lithospheric Thinning in the Ligurian Basin (N W Mediterranean). Geophysical Research Letters, 12(10), 693–696. https://doi.org/10.1029/GL012i010p00693
Hutchison, I., Von Herzen, R. P., Louden, K. E., Sclater, J. G., & Jemsek, J. (1985). Heat flow in the Balearic and Tyrrhenian basins, western Mediterranean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90(B1), 685–701. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB090iB01p00685
Hellinger, S. J., Shedlock, K. M., Sclater, J. G., & Hong, Y. (1985). The Cenozoic evolution of the North China Basin. Tectonics, 4(4), 343–358. https://doi.org/10.1029/TC004i004p00343
Davis, E. E., Lister, C. R. B., & Sclater, J. G. (1984). Towards determining the thermal state of old ocean lithosphere: heat-flow measurements from the Blake—Bahama outer ridge, north-western Atlantic. Geophysical Journal International, 78(2), 507–545. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1984.tb01962.x
Crough, S. T., Hinze, W. J., & Sclater, J. G. (1984). Seamounts as Recorders of Hot-Spot Epeirogeny. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 95(1), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1984)95<3:sarohe>2.0.co;2
Fisher, R. L., & Sclater, J. G. (1983). Tectonic evolution of the Southwest Indian Ocean since the Mid-Cretaceous: plate motions and stability of the pole of Antarctica/Africa for at least 80 Myr. Geophysical Journal International, 73(2), 553–576. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1983.tb03330.x
Hellinger, S. J., & Sclater, J. G. (1983). Some Comments on 2-Layer Extensional Models for the Evolution of Sedimentary Basins. Journal of Geophysical Research, 88(NB10), 8251–8269. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB088iB10p08251
Sawyer, D. S., Swift, B. A., Sclater, J. G., & Toksoz, M. N. (1982). Extensional Model for the Subsidence of the Northern United-States Atlantic Continental-Margin. Geology, 10(3), 134–140. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1982)10<134:emftso>2.0.co;2
Sawyer, D. S., Toksoz, M. N., Sclater, J. G., & Swift, B. A. (1982). Thermal evolution of the Baltimore Canyon Trough and Georges Bank Basins. In J. S. Watkins & C. L. Drake (Eds.), Stuides in continental margin geology (pp. 743–764). American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Royden, L., & Sclater, J. G. (1981). The Neogene Intra-Carpathian Basins. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 300(1454), 373–381. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1981.0070
Jaupart, C., Sclater, J. G., & Simmons, G. (1981). Heat-Flow Studies - Constraints on the Distribution of Uranium, Thorium and Potassium in the Continental-Crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 52(2), 328–344. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x(81)90187-4
Sclater, J. G., Parsons, B., & Jaupart, C. (1981). Oceans and continents: similarities and differences in the mechanisms of heat loss. Journal of Geophysical Research, 86(B12), 11,535-11,552. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB086iB12p11535